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Physics and Astronomy News Archive: December 2016

Dark Matter May be Smoother than Expected

Source: ESO Posted: 12/13/16

Analysis of a giant new galaxy survey suggests that dark matter may be less dense and more smoothly distributed throughout space than previously thought.

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